[Portland
OR] Portland music venues A-Z may be developing into a problem. It wasn’t like it
was a new venue to me – I’d been here once and it was bad memories (oh flame). It
wasn’t like I didn’t know the music would be shitty but I Just Couldn’t Resist
crossing something off my list – because I am a troubled individual. The venue
(‘venue’) was aggressively Pacific Northwest – strewn with people in regalia
from Patagonia, NorthFace, etc. and people with the tiny bodies of extreme
runners, bicyclists, etc. Lots of white blonde people. I felt oppressed but I
persisted. So, online beforehand, Terri Lynn was a mid-blonde hippy-looking
woman. BUT 2018 Terri Lynn is raven-haired and wears a man’s tie around her
neck tied all topsy turvy - a rebel, obviously. She sang and played guitar, accompanied
by a guy on guitar. I couldn’t decide which guitar was pretty much disposable
but one of them was. She covered Lorde’s “Royals” and Tom Petty’s “Last Dance With Mary Jane” (head
bowed for the recent death of one spoke of my high school trifecta of the ideal
man, along with Al Jourgensen and John Denver). There may have been other covers
I didn’t catch or recognize – there were some she wrote herself. She was
country folk? But that’s more flavor than she had… Acoustic guitar
singer/songwriter? Her blandness completely protects her from any genre pigeon-holing.
They were positioned right by a door – no stage – no sound system – so the
system was working against them. Ultimately, she wasn’t unpleasant at all. I
admired her gutzpah in landing a gig. And I highly recommend this venue’s
really delicious IPAs and F.O.T.M. pizza (Fire on the Mountain wing sauce with
blue cheese and chicken, but somehow refined).
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